| Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 27, Blythburgh/Kirkwall | 
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Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 138
UPC: 843183013821
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ASIN: B0012ELP66
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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Disc 1
| • | Brandenburg Concerto no 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 1st movement, Allegro | | • | Brandenburg Concerto no 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 2nd movement, Adagio | | • | Brandenburg Concerto no 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 3rd movement, Allegro | | • | Erwuenschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184: no 1, Erwuenschtes Freudenlicht | | • | Erwuenschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184: no 2, Gesegnete Christen, glueckselige Herde | | • | Erwuenschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184: no 3, So freuet euch, ihr auserwaehlten Seelen! | | • | Erwuenschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184: no 4, Glueck und Segen sind bereit | | • | Erwuenschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184: no 5, Herr, ich hoff je, du werdest die | | • | Erwuenschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184: no 6, Guter Hirte, Trost der Deinen | | • | Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen und fuehret sie hinaus, BWV 175: no 1, Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen | | • | Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen und fuehret sie hinaus, BWV 175: no 2, Komm, leite mich, es sehnet sich | | • | Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen und fuehret sie hinaus, BWV 175: no 3, Wo find ich dich? | | • | Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen und fuehret sie hinaus, BWV 175: no 4, Es duenket mich, ich seh dich kommen | | • | Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen und fuehret sie hinaus, BWV 175: no 5, Sie vernahmen aber nicht | | • | Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen und fuehret sie hinaus, BWV 175: no 6, Oeffnet euch, ihr beiden Ohren | | • | Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen und fuehret sie hinaus, BWV 175: no 7, Nun, werter Geist, ich folg dir |
Disc 2
| • | Hoechsterwuenschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: no 1, Hoechsterwuenschtes Freudenfest | | • | Hoechsterwuenschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: no 2, Unendlich grosser Gott | | • | Hoechsterwuenschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: no 3, Was des Hoechsten Glanz erfuellt | | • | Hoechsterwuenschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: no 4, Wie koennte dir, du hoechstes Angesicht | | • | Hoechsterwuenschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: no 5, Hilf, Gott, dass es uns gelingt | | • | Hoechsterwuenschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: no 6, Heilger Geist ins Himmels Throne | | • | Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding um aller Menschen Herze, BWV 176: no 1, Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding | | • | Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding um aller Menschen Herze, BWV 176: no 2, Ich meine, recht verzagt | | • | Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding um aller Menschen Herze, BWV 176: no 3, Dein sonst hell beliebter Schein | | • | Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding um aller Menschen Herze, BWV 176: no 4, So wundre dich, o Meister, nicht | | • | Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding um aller Menschen Herze, BWV 176: no 5, Ermuntert euch, furchtsam und schuechterne Sinne | | • | Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding um aller Menschen Herze, BWV 176: no 6, Auf dass wir also allzugleich | | • | O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad, das Gottes Reich uns einverliebet, BWV 165: no 1, O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad | | • | O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad, das Gottes Reich uns einverliebet, BWV 165: no 2, Die suendige Geburt verdammter Adamserben | | • | O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad, das Gottes Reich uns einverliebet, BWV 165: no 3, Jesu, der aus grosser Liebe | | • | O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad, das Gottes Reich uns einverliebet, BWV 165: no 4, Ich habe ja, mein Seelenbraeutigam | | • | O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad, das Gottes Reich uns einverliebet, BWV 165: no 5, Jesu, meines Todes Tod | | • | O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad, das Gottes Reich uns einverliebet, BWV 165: no 6, Sein Wort, sein Tauf, sein Nachtmahl | | • | Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129: no 1, Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott | | • | Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129: no 2, Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, mein Heil | | • | Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129: no 3, Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, mein Trost | | • | Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129: no 4, Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, der ewig lebet | | • | Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129: no 5, Dem wir das Heilig itzt mit Freuden lassen klingen |
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GETTING TO KNOW BACH May 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This leg of the Bach cantata pilgrimage starts with a short trek across Suffolk from Long Melford to Blythburgh church for Whit Tuesday, and then a longer excursion for Trinity Sunday to the Orkneys, a trip of a kind familiar to air travellers in Britain and recently re-enacted on a grand scale at Heathrow's Terminal 5. The date was in the year 2000 of course, and the air traffic control computer had broken down. Whether at that date the entire congested air traffic over southern England was still controlled by a single small and antiquated PDP11 minicomputer I cannot now remember. I found out about this, of course, from Gardiner's 'blog' that accompanies every step of his and his colleagues' epic journey, and it reinforced my astonishment and awe at the sheer poise and professionalism that these artists display on every occasion, even when they have lost a day from their already short rehearsal time.
Interesting and enlightening as Gardiner unfailingly is, in this instance my attention was captured even more by the short essay from Paul Agnew, who takes the tenor solos on the Trinity Sunday disc. In brief, Agnew is a professional musician who thought he knew Bach because he knew the Passions, the 48 and the concertos. Not only did he not know the cantatas, which he now hears as the core of Bach's output, most professional musicians, he tells us, did not know them either so recently as 2000. This eases my own sense of guilt at being so late in becoming acquainted with them, but it further enhances my amazement at what this pilgrimage is achieving. The music that they present to us with not only such affection and understanding but with such command and aplomb even in difficult circumstances is not Beethoven symphonies: it seems to have been music that they were learning as they went along.
Only two cantatas for Whit Tuesday survive, so to fill out the first disc there is a performance of the third Brandenburg concerto, a choice that suggested itself naturally because a modified version of its first movement had been a 'sinfonia' in one of the cantatas the group had just been giving at Long Melford. Bach provides no central slow movement for this concerto, only a pair of cadential chords. Something has therefore to be supplied, and here we are offered the interesting and unusual choice of an unaccompanied violin solo taken from the prelude to Bach's first sonata for that instrument. Without having taken the trouble to verify the matter, I think this may be an abbreviated version, but its main interest is in its unexpectedness and originality, although I would have liked to be told who was actually playing. Starting as it does with an instrumental number, this set inclines me to focus the review more than I have done elsewhere on the instrumental side of the performances. Bach thought of music in instrumental much more than in vocal terms, I'm quite convinced. Even when he is setting a text for singing, Bach is inspired to turn out another of his infinitely varied and infinitely expressive musical patterns just as he might do for a purely instrumental composition, and the voices are integrated into an instrumentally-focused abstract design. One excellent point that Agnew makes is how vivid Bach's orchestral colouring is -- he can work wonders in the six cantatas here with a couple of oboes, or a pair of recorders, or a trio of trumpets. Add timpani to these last and we have a wonderful and exhilarating sound in the final cantata no 129, and I am as baffled as Gardiner apparently was that it failed to arouse the expected enthusiasm among the Orcadian audience. One detail in Gardiner's account left me unclear regarding the instrumentation, and it is whether they managed to obtain a 5-stringed violoncello piccolo for cantata 175 or whether a more normal kind of instrument had to do.
The names of the soloists are becoming familiar to me as I progressively follow in the steps of their pilgrimage, and they perform to the magnificent standard that continues to astonish me without surprising me, so confidently have I come to expect it by now. Not least impressive is Paul Agnew himself, whose exceptionally interesting comments I have already mentioned. He sings with the fervour of a lover with a new musical love. I am with him in his enthusiasm wholeheartedly, and although I fully join in the extravagance of his admiration for Bach I would only suggest that 'dramatic' is not one of the words to praise him with. Bach's wonderful musical patterns can be vivid, they can be overwhelmingly powerful, but it still seems to me that Bach's mind is contemplative even when his music is most overpowering. There is no paradox in this perception. All that the composer requires for it to be true is an infinite musical gift.
As I acquire more of this marvellous series I am coming to think of it as a unity more than as a series of separate productions, and although each disc has to be assessed separately from the others I am finding that the assessment tends to be much the same every time. Similarly with the cantatas themselves. I find them less a series of freestanding works like, say, Beethoven's sonatas than a great unified river of inspiration whose source is Bach's unshakable faith allied to his limitless talent.
The age I have lived through has brought this to me through the agency of not only the artists but the technicians, whose work has been of an undeviatingly high standard. A word of thanks also to the aviation industry for delivering the pilgrims safely, and perhaps a quiet reminder that modern propeller airliners are often much newer than they look and are technologically impressive, deserving a kinder name than 'crop-sprayers'.
Gardiner does it again April 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've long waited for this one. BWV129 is an old favourite - I love the old Rilling recording, with the three trumpeting Laeubin brothers blowing up an absolute storm, soaring and trilling likes things possessed. Naturally one can't expect this with natural valveless trumpets. And Gardiner's forces pull it off magnificently, in a wonderful atmospheric acoustic (St. Magnus's Cathedral, Kirkwall in the Orkneys). And this in spite of the difficulties in getting there (Gardiner and Co. were stuck at the airport when a substantial chunk of the UK air traffic control system fell in a heap) and the consequent short rehearsal time.
A nice and unusual touch is a performance of Brandenburg Concerto No.3. Why? Because they were running out of Trinity cantatas to play, so they included the "trinity" concerto - 3 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos, in one of Bach's most loved instrumental pieces.
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